und

and

The 6th most frequent word in German, appearing about 16,331 times per million words.

Type

conjunction

Frequency rank

#6

Per million words

16,331

In a sentence

Word order

A coordinating conjunction: it joins two clauses and leaves the word order alone. The verb stays in second position — Ich komme, aber ich bleibe nicht lange.

Related words

Other words of the same kind, at nearby frequency:

• als than, as, when
• aber but
• dass that
• oder or
• damit with it, so that
• wenn if, when

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